⮒anu ⮛eledd II: Chwiorydd Heledd

The stanzas given above are derived from the microfiche copy of a sixteenth century manuscript, the British Museum 54 (Addl. 14867) which is a copy by W Morris in 1759 of the 1758 Panton 16 MS of Evan Evans. He gives a faithful redition of the Red Book of Hergest's Heledd Cycle, but at the end of the poems he adds: 'Yma y tervyn yn y Llyfr Coch. Ond medd y Dr Davies, "Ar ôl hyn ir oedd mewn un llyfr yr hyn sydd yn canlyn". He then gives the seven stanzas added here to the LlCH (RBH) version of the poem. This indicates that in the latter half of the sixteenth century a manuscript existed that contained portions of the Heledd Cycle that are not found in the extant versions of either the Red or the White book poetry. The stanzas here continue directly after the main Canu Heledd poems.